The Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, on Thursday stated that his administration will not relent in providing good services to the people of the state.
The governor made the comment while addressing the management team of Periódicos Liderazgo during the official presentation of the 2024 Governor of the Year award to the governor.
However, he maintained that his administration would not rest on its laurels and revealed that his administration has reduced the infrastructure deficit in the state by more than 40 percent.
According to him, “I will very soon commence the ongoing remodeling of the Osogbo stadium to meet international standards.
“Prior to this project, we established the Osun Sports Commission and the Osun Sports Fund through appropriate legal and policy frameworks.
The Governor declared: “I will not let the praise go to my head. While it may be true that I have accomplished a four-year task in less than two years, I feel compelled to do more because Osun has fallen behind on many fronts.
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“Having reduced the infrastructure deficit by more than 40 percent, my real goal is even higher. Although I have bypassed access to primary health care, my ambition is to expand access to health at the middle and tertiary levels.
“While our records across sectors are commendable, as your newspaper has recognised, my ultimate goal is to accelerate infrastructure improvements besides boosting soft investments for the well-being of our people.”
He added: “I appreciate your sincere support of our performance. It is important to note that their criteria for recognizing us align with the reasons cited by others.
“Our significant achievements in governance are undeniable, particularly in worker welfare, infrastructure provision, educational expansion, improving access to healthcare, solid minerals sector reforms, digital economy initiatives , agricultural mechanization and more.
“Also, I will soon launch the dualization of the first phase of the Odoori-Postal road in Iwo. The contractor of the Iwo-Osogbo road has already mobilized to the site. We plan to complete these projects within the duration of this administration.
“Meanwhile, the dualization project in Ilesa is progressing and the flyover bridge in Ile-Ife is progressing considerably. The year 2025 will be a period of further expansion of good governance for the benefit of humanity.”
In his own remarks, the Deputy Chairman of the Leadership Group, Mr. Mike Okpere, said Adeleke's exceptional performance in all sectors of the economy led to his recognition as Governor of the Year.
According to him, “what we do as our responsibility of social cooperation is to recognize social improvement as people who improve society, economically or otherwise, and that is, we also find it worthy of his excellence to be awarded as governor of the year.” .
Your Excellency will see that we not only come down here, we have a meeting for the award and that is why we are here, so this trip is to formally notify you for this award and we invite you personally from April 8th this award will be presented to you in the hall of banquets of the Asokoro state house.”
“Our big name person of the year is Aliko Dangote, you all know the investment he just made, bringing fuel production to Nigeria for that and many other things, we choose him our person of the year.”
“Other people who could share the credit are other governors who have influenced the lives of the people, including his…Governor of Akwa Ibom, Governor of Enugu State, Governor of Jigawa State, Governor of of Kano”.
“We don't call this leadership governor of the year, we call it Governor of the year, in a nutshell what we say, with this recognition we will give them an idea and an encouragement to serve a second term.”
“As a journalistic company, we do not support the Governors, but when we see something we say, Your Excellency sir, our duty has almost been fulfilled or I want to present the official notification and invitation.”
Also speaking was Vice President Abraham Nda-Isaiah, who highlighted Adeleke's achievements in regular salary payments, infrastructure development, healthcare, agriculture and education as factors that contributed to his selection for the award.
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